Going nuts with CFHTTP Problem

[Amosl]

First off any help would be sincerely appreciated. I've spent 4 hours straight trying to figure out this problem.

I am trying to collect information from an external jsp server. When I send a request to the home page, I have no problems.

When I send a request to the second page which requires a bunch of form information, I am able to connect. This second page does create a session and send out a cookie.

when I try to connect to the third page which requires an existing session and some cookie parameters I get a connection failed.
Something about the way I am sending the session and cookies isn't working.
Here is my code for the request generating an error:
jid, ehvid1 and ecid1 are the values that come when I get the header info from the second page

notice that after the http://somepage.jsp there is a ";" I the semicolon this because that's what appears when I go to the page in my browser.

<cfhttp url=" http://somepage.jsp;JSESSIONID=#jid#" method="post" redirect="YES" resolveurl="yes" throwonerror="no" >

<cfhttpparam name="JSESSIONID" value="#jid#" type="cookie">
<cfhttpparam name="ehiVisitor" value="#ehvid1#" type="cookie">
<cfhttpparam name="ehiCookie" value="#ehcid1#" type="cookie">
<cfhttpparam name="ehiVisitor" value="#ehvid2#" type="cookie">
<cfhttpparam name="ehiCookie" value="#ehcid2#" type="cookie">

</cfhttp>

If you don't know why I get the connection failed error can you suggest other jsp server that would require session and/or cookie information? This would help because I could test my code on other servers.

[Amosl]

I did notice that I should be posting to https and not http. I changed the port to 443 and changed the url to https but still get the error. The ssl is a verisign cert.

[Mark_Forsberg]

Amosl,

We recently had an issue with CFMX7 and SSL. CFMX7 cfhttp doesn't work with SSLv3. We purchased CFX_HTTP5. That solved the problem. It's lightning fast compared to cfhttp. You can also do multiple asynchronous http calls.
Hope this helps.

[insuractive]

You may need to add a couple custom headers to your SSL post in order to get it to work in ColdFusion. Try adding the following <cfhttpparam> tags to your CFHTTP call:

<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Accept-Encoding" value="deflate;q=0">
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="TE" value="deflate;q=0">